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Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking

Ars Technica

Flash's native image generation capabilities, making the experimental feature available to anyone using Google AI Studio. Last Wednesday, Google expanded access to Gemini 2.0 Previously limited to testers since December, the multimodal technology integrates both native text and image processing capabilities into one AI model.

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Adobe just released the last Flash update ever

The Verge

Adobe has released the final scheduled update to its Flash Player plugin, weeks before Flash’s official retirement. As noted on Adobe’s site , yesterday marked the last update for Flash outside mainland China, which has a separate version of the software. Fortunately, we’ve seen numerous efforts to keep Flash media alive.

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Robot elephants are replacing real ones in an Indian temple

Mashable Tech

Used for ceremonies, elephants are subjected to physical and psychological stress , and exposure to flashing lights, loud noises, and crowds during festivities can cause uncontrollable reactions in the animals, often resulting in human casualties. Asian elephants, which are an endangered species , are an important part of Indian culture.

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What Ever Happened to Adobe Flash?

TechSpot

For years, Adobe Flash was synonymous with interactive websites, web video, and browser games. At its peak, Flash Player was on 99% of desktop browsers. A decade later and it's all but gone.

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The Internet Archive is now preserving Flash games and animations

The Verge

The Internet Archive — the non-profit digital library known for the Wayback Machine — announced that it will now preserve Flash animations and games , ahead of Adobe’s planned demise for the defunct web software at the end of 2020. In the years following, Adobe decided to end support for Flash on mobile. Image: Puffballs United.

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Flash animations will live forever thanks to the Internet Archive

TechSpot

They’ve embarked on a journey to add “Flash” support to the Internet Archive’s Emularity system, which lets select Flash items play in your browser as if you. The fine folks over at the Internet Archive can’t stand to see history fade away, no matter how bad it might have been.

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Google’s Gemini AI can now see your search history

Ars Technica

Flash Thinking Experimental is the company's most capable multistep reasoning model , which can consider complex topics and gives you a window into its "thought" process. With the aim of making Gemini more personal to you, Google is also plugging Flash Thinking Experimental into a new source of data: your search history.

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